The Devil's Teardrop - Jeffery Deaver

New Year’s Eve 1999, a madman opens fire with an Uzi in a crowded Washington DC subway, killing 23 people and injuring scores more. The shooter, known as The Digger, melts into the crowd and disappears. Shortly after, a note demanding $20,000,000 is delivered to the Mayor. If the ransom isn’t paid the extortionist says, the Digger will strike again and again until he is told to stop. In a bizarre twist of fate, the extortionist is run over in the street on the way to collect the ransom and killed. With no one left alive who knows the identity of the shooter or with the power to stop his murderous rampage, it is a race against time to ...  Read the complete review

This Deaver bloke is a bit of a psycho! Having read a couple of his books, you get a real feel for this author's mind, and, well, I'd not want to bump into him in a dark alley! Scary bloke. The Devil's teardrop centres round an ex-FBI documents agent. He's called in to help with a New Year's Eve case with a "pay or my accomplice shoots the public at regular times" threat. Except that the ransomer is killed, leaving the shooter loose. You see, unless he hears from the ransomer, he keeps killing! In addition, the killer, all we are told is he’s “The Digger” and that he is not a particularly sharp person. ...  Read the complete review

Let me start with the negative. This story line towards the end falters slighty as it becomes a tad unbelievable. It seems as if he struggled a little in ending the story. Fortunately though, the one negative is out-weighed by the positives. Deaver has created another page turner of twists and turns. This time pitting retired FBI document examiner Parker Kincaid against a maniacal killer who's been unleashed on Washington DC on the eve of the new millenium. The madman, who conrols the killer and has set deadlines for ransom money, has been accidentally killed. Now Parker, teamed with a combined force of FBI and DC police, sets off to battle the ...  Read the complete review

This book just flows...... Many plot twists and the villan of the piece is not revealed right up until the end....unusual nowadays! The story begins with the mass slaying in a metro station, then a note is left at the mayors office saying it will happen again at 4, 8, and at midnight, the entrance to the new millenium, unless the ransom is paid. The FBI have a problem though, the man who delivered the note is killed in a hit and run. They now have no leads and no way to contact the killer to tell him to stop. The leads come from the note when Parker, an ex-agent is brought in to consult. I will say no more of the ...  Read the complete review

It's Millennium Eve in Washington, DC. A man gets onto an escalator in a crowded metro station and opens fire with a machine gun. He escapes and an hour later, a note is delivered to the Mayor. If a ransom of twenty million dollars is not paid, the killer will strike repeatedly. The writer of the note is suddenly identified, but there is no way to stop the killer, a separate person. The only clue that the FBI has is the note, and it is up to Parker Kincaid and Margaret Lucas to bring down the killer. The plot of the book is a good one and it is an interesting idea to have such an intriguing plot twist so early on. However, the twists do not stop ...  Read the complete review